x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall

James Allen Hall and Aaron Smith talk about their favorite poems and poets, interview amazing writers, laugh a lot, gossip, and get real about life and art.

arts books

All Episodes

36:04

Boy in Video Arcade

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2026/04/06

The queens talk about writing through sadness and grief in order to move forward and gain a different vantage point. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: Take a look at the Tracey Emin sculpture "My Bed." It was sold at auction by Christie’s in July 20...

en-us

29:07

Say Yes to the Dress

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2026/03/30

Dress shopping is cardio & life for the Breaking Form fashionistas. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: Paul Tran's "Provenance" appeared first February 22/March 1, 2021 issue of The Nation and was included in All the Flowers Kneeling, which was p...

en-us

52:43

Horsepower (with Special Guest Joy Priest)

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2026/03/23

Get set for a poetry gabfest for the ages! The fabulous Joy Priest joins us for the Breaking Form Interview. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: Buy Joy's prizewinning collection of poems, Horsepower, from the University of Pittsburgh Press here or fro...

en-us

36:05

James Went to AWP (2026)

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2026/03/16

The queens kindly request your presence for some piping hot tea as they recap the AWP Conference in Baltimore. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: James posted some AWP tips on Facebook here. For the curious, AWP has posted its "Community Particip...

en-us

37:19

The Wild Iris: A Breaking Form Revisit

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2026/03/09

That which you call death, the queens remember in this episode that revisits The Wild Iris, Louise Glück's Pulitzer-Prize winning volume from 1992. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: While the recording released by the Academy of American Poets of Glück re...

en-us

28:58

Fum*ble*cunk: Victorian Slang

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2026/03/02

What nanty narking our Reginas have with some slang from the Victorian era. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: Marilyn Nelson's poem in The New Yorker that Aaron was thinking of is "Pigeon and Hawk." Poets we mention include (with a poem by each): Ma...

en-us

32:52

Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2026/02/23

The queens read for filth another toxic masculinist article before we play a saucy game based on a gay novel. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: Heather Christle's post sparked this episode's discussion and can be found here. Christle's most recent b...

en-us

31:28

Rimshot

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2026/02/16

"Dawns are heartbreaking," as is the queer love story of Arthur Rimbaud & Paul Verlaine. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: Paul Verlaine was born in 1844. Read more about him here. Verlaine was an Aries sun, Leo Moon, and Scorpio ascendant. Arthur Rimbaud wa...

en-us

27:54

Perfectly Good Dick

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2026/02/09

James has to choose his favorite from an array of poetic Dicks. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: Read Richard Wilbur's "The House" from Anterooms: New Poems and Translation (2010). Watch Wilbur read his iconic poem, "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World" H...

en-us

37:04

Lucille Clifton

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2026/02/02

Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: Read the London Review of Books praising Aracelis Girmay's volume, How to Carry Water: Selected Poems by Lucille Clifton. Watch Girmay read Clifton's poem "praise song." Learn more about Lucille Clifton here, he...

en-us

41:20

The Eras: a Poetry Tour

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2026/01/26

Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. NOTES: Gwendolyn Brooks published "The Bean Eaters" in Poetry Magazine in 1959. Check out the video of this interview with Gwendolyn Brooks. Here is Sylvia Plath's "Aftermath." Listen to this October 1962 interview with Plath by Peter...

en-us

40:23

Hap

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2026/01/19

Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. NOTES: Read "Hap" by Thomas Hardy. And watch a here's a video enactment/reading of "Hap" by Thomas Hardy. And watch a reading/enactment of the poem here. Read a terrific essay about Hardy's poem published by the Thomas Hardy Society h...

en-us

7:24

I Am a Receptical (A Poetry Salon)

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2026/01/12

Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: We read poems by Amy Lowell and Jubi Arriola-Headley Check out Jubi Arriola-Headley's website here, and an obituary here. Learn more about Amy Lowell here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/amy-lowell

en-us

9:18

François Sagat (A Poetry Salon)

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2026/01/05

Happy New Year! Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: We read poems by Giada Scodellaro and Natalie Louise Tombasco. Check out Giada Scodellaro's website here: https://giadascodellaro.com/ Check out Natalie Louise Tombasco's website: https://natalielouisetombasco.com/

en-us

7:10

Vitamin D (A Poetry Salon)

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/12/29

Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: We read poems by Kelli Russell Agodon and Afaa Michael Weaver. Learn more about Afaa Michael Weaver here: https://www.theshipmanagency.com/afaa-michael-weaver Check out Kelli Russell Agodon's website: https://www.agodon.com/index.html

en-us

5:21

Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (A Poetry Salon)

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/12/22

Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: We read poems by Jonterri Gadson & Patrica Traxler Check out Jonterri Gadson's website: https://www.jonterrigadson.com/ You can read more about Patricia Traxler on this Wikipedia page.

en-us

6:32

Knight Him (A Poetry Salon)

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/12/15

Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: We read poems by Mary Helen Callier & Virginia Chase Sutton Check out Mary Helen Callier's website: https://maryhelencallier.com/ Check out Virginia Chase Sutton's website: https://www.virginiachasesutton.com/

en-us

10:01

That Moon Will Kill Me (A Poetry Salon)

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/12/08

Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: We read poems by David Hernandez and Dorian Elizabeth Knapp. Check out Dorian Elizabeth Knapp's website: https://dorianelizabethknapp.com/ Check out David Hernandez's website: http://www.davidahernandez.com/

en-us

40:32

All Tops

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/12/01

Nerd tops, dom tops, soft tops: the queens go gaga over a discussion of their top poems by favorite poets. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES: Poems and poets discussed in this episode include: Sharon Olds: "The Race"; "Topography"; "First" Louise Glück: "Widows"; "Celestial Music"; "The Mirror" (text); "The Mir...

en-us

30:04

OnlyForms

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/11/24

Let's get trioleted, girls! The queens delve into some fun poetic forms. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Watch TLC's music video for "No Scrubs" Discover more about Jehanne Dubrow's The Arranged Marriage, about which Claudia Rankine writes,"The poet here is positioned to observe, to picture, and to record in order to communic...

en-us

239 results

Similar Podcasts

Start The Breakthrough Full Audiobook Now, Thriller Fans!

thebookvoice.com

Get Hooked On The Life-Enhancing Full Audiobook Experience!

thebookvoice.com

西四五条

主播郑捕头

Podcast Patapoe

0d0a

On Mic Podcast

Jordan Rich